Workshop "Research and teaching Vietnamese studies and Vietnamese language: Theoretical and practical issues"

The conference is an annual traditional activity between the two faculties to create opportunities for scientists to share new research, thereby further promoting research and training cooperation in Vietnamese Language and Vietnamese Studies.

Principal Pham Quang Minh speaks at the Workshop

In his opening speech, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Minh highly appreciated the effective and long-standing cooperation between the two faculties as a typical model of development cooperation between the two national universities of the country. This connection has contributed to the remarkable achievements of the two faculties in recent times in many fields.

In 2015, the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities pioneered and completed the construction of the "Vietnamese Language Competency Framework for Foreigners". In June 2016, the Ministry of Education and Training issued the test format according to this competency assessment framework. This is an important milestone in the field of teaching Vietnamese to foreigners and demonstrates the capacity and prestige of the scientific staff of the University in general and the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language in particular. Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Quang Minh suggested that in the near future, the Faculty should pay attention to disseminating this competency assessment framework to relevant agencies and organizations at home and abroad, and plan to send staff to partner units to train on how to use and apply this assessment framework in practice.

Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Minh also emphasized that never before has the Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language sector faced such a strong development opportunity as it does now. Visits by foreign leaders, the strong “invasion” of foreign enterprises and companies into Vietnam… have helped Vietnamese Studies gain an increasingly important position and role. This is a good opportunity for the Faculty to reflect and find solutions to bring this field of study to a new level of development, reaching out more widely to a wide range of different subjects in society.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam - Head of the Department of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Khac Cuong - Head of Vietnam Studies Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City

The conference received more than 50 presentations with diverse content revolving around issues of research and training in Vietnamese Language and Vietnam Studies. Of these, 8 presentations were presented at the main session, including:

- "Format of Vietnamese listening comprehension test for international students" (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Phuc).

- "Giving - real words and empty words" (Dr. Le Thi Hong Minh).

- "Teaching literature to Vietnamese students in the trend of interdisciplinary research - current situation and some proposed issues" (MSc. Tran Thi Thu).

- "Culture and beliefs of Vietnamese people in Ly Son island district - Quang Ngai" (MSc. Nguyen Duy Doai).

- "Elementary Vietnamese for foreigners - groups of words indicating absolute quantity" (Dr. Huynh Cong Hien).

- "Conversational interaction from the perspective of social interaction and application to teaching Vietnamese conversation" (M.A. Nguyen Kim Yen).

- "Phonetic symbolization, a method of generating Vietnamese reduplicated words" (Master Phan Tran Cong).

- "Re-conceptualizing the issue of ethnic cultural space" (Dr. Dang Hoang Giang).

Prof. Dr. People's Teacher Hoang Trong Phien - former Head of the Department of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language

The workshop was attended by many leading scientists in the fields of Linguistics, Vietnamese Language, and Vietnam Studies.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Phuc (Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi) presented the first paper of the Workshop: "Format of the test to assess Vietnamese listening comprehension ability for international students".

Dr. Le Thi Hong Minh (Faculty of Vietnamese Studies, Ho Chi Minh City) presented the paper "Giving - real words and empty words"

Delegates and guests take souvenir photos at the Conference